May 10, 2021
Posts By: Rebecca Barnes
March 23, 2021
On the Brink of Extinction: The Vaquita’s Lament
Poem written by Beverly R Hampton Harvey Browne Presbyterian Church Louisville, KY March 7, 2021 Background: A small porpoise named the vaquita was declared the most endangered marine mammal in the world in 2006. Vaquitas have long been in decline as they have been caught in nets intended for another fish called the Totaba whose… Read more »
January 29, 2021
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Poor People’s Campaign and Hunger Concerns
While we work on long-term solutions to systemic injustices, we also are called to stay active in our local communities. On January 18, 2021 Rev. Frank Dew and other members of Salem presbytery worked with partners to raise awareness about hunger through a food drive and advocacy, as one of many ways to honor the… Read more »
January 20, 2021
Honoring the Life and Witness of Rev. Dr. Robert Stivers
November 25, 2020
Children, Teens, Climate Change and Caring for God’s Creation
October 12, 2020
Green Good News
Book review by Rebecca Barnes T. Wilson Dickinson has published an excellent book that will be of great importance to the church at large and the ecumenical movement for economic and environmental justice. It will be invigorating to individuals and congregations. As a professor at Lexington Theological Seminary in Kentucky and as a writer, pastor,… Read more »
August 31, 2020
Peacemaking resource includes Climate Change, Poverty, Racism and other themes to engage
The new Companion Guide to the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s “Commitment to Peacemaking” has just been released. This will be a fabulous resource for the church. The Companion Guide encourages a congregation to spend a year with each theme, and provides resources for study, worship, and action. Presbyterian Hunger Program contributed the suggestions on climate change…. Read more »
August 28, 2020
Sustainable Living and Earth Care issue of PHP Post
Check out this most recent issue of the PHP Post. It is all about Sustainable Living and Earth Care concerns. This issue includes a center poster that outlines the work of this part of Presbyterian Hunger Program. Click here to download your copy of the Post, or the poster by itself.
June 22, 2020
“If we say we are without sin…”
May 12, 2020
Ecumenical Resources Help Care for Creation
We have often heard the saying that to be Presbyterian is to be ecumenical. That means, we don’t separate our particular understanding of being Christian and worshipping and practicing church polity in our own tradition as being something that excludes us from celebrating and doing ministry with other Christian denominations and communions. Our ecumenical partners,… Read more »